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Harvard University Art Museum curator Linda Norton and graduate student Scott Rothkopf have commissioned Huyghe to respond to Harvard’s most beloved, if not emblematic work of architecture. Their charge: to consider the con temporary and future impact of this eclectic Modernist monument...
...Fifth Circuit [Court of Appeals] has just said that a big stone monument of the Ten Commandments, is in fact, secular,” Laycock said. “It has, in big words at the top, ‘Thou shalt have no other Gods over...
...Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case questioning the permissibility of this monument on state capital grounds in Austin, Texas. When asked his expectation of the outcome, Laycock said he was unsure, but he speculated that the Court would strike it down...
...past half-century. He arrived in Tokyo in 1947 as a typist with the U.S. government and never really left, writing dozens of books on Japanese movies, temples, history and fashion, while enjoying himself as an actor, musician, filmmaker and painter. The Japan Journals: 1947-2004 is a monument to the pleasures of displacement. Richie watchers can observe, more intimately than ever, a man who is generally happiest observing. Newcomers to the "chronic non-joiner" may be tempted to turn to two essential, and more formal, companion books also published in recent years: The Donald Richie Reader and a reissue...
...even have added some footage from ukiyo-e-inspired films like Kenji Mizoguchi's masterful 1947 biopic Utamaro and his Five Women. But that's quibbling. Better simply to enjoy the bounty of color and line, to relish the beauty of women and nature, on display in this extraordinary monument to a very special world. Better just to float...